The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-31

masculine hearts caught at tie rebound
By this time DR.. Blake knew that his case
was hopeless with the chit of a girl he had
been temporarily infatuated Should she
strike while the iron was hot?
when Miss Doris and your nephew are
married, you and Doctor will be left quite
alone!" said Mrs Mack, with tender look,
which was entirely lost on the D octor, who
had subsided into his waking slumber. AS
in a vision he again saw Doris deep eyes
looking into his own with the strange in
tensity which once before had thrilled him
through and through And extending his
arms DIR. Blake said, aloud:
MY darling-come.
Mrs Mack saw no vision. The outstretched
arms were joyful reality. So also was
the tender invitation; and without an in
slant of delay she literally fell on the
Doctors neck, about which her arms
clasped themselves with considerable te-
nac:ty.
3P-Paul, she sobbed, Historically, "now 1
shall never leave you-never!" and clung
the tighter to the scarcely awakened doc
tor as Bob, thinking matters had gone quite
far enough, suddenly turned up the gas!
Now Doris had chosen that evening to tell
her guardian of her future plans Perhaps,
! too, she might learn from his own lips that
there was some mistake as to his matri-
monial intentions
Her foot was on the library threshold as
Bob threw the glow of gaslight on the in
teresting tableau l have Just mentioned.
And casting one glance thereat, Doris fed
upstairs to her room. But had she fingered
a moment, Doris would have heard Dr.
Blake utter something akin to mild profan-
| ity, and seen him rise to his feet so suddenly
as to nearly precipitate the clinging widow
| over hassock
"Mrs Mack?" he sternly exclaimed, but the
lady, forcibly overcome by a sense of maid
emily modesty, had fled.
And Miss Doris see it ALL" said Bob in
| audible soliloquy, as he stood staring in a
| dazed sort of way at the open door
GO to bed, Bob" sharply commanded DIR.
| Blake, in great perturbation of spirit What
could he have said or done in his dreamy
abstraction that Nlrs. Mack who was the
| pink OF prOpriety, should have thrown her
self into his arms? Good Heavens, what
terrible situationl Come what might he
would see Doris the first thing in the morn
| ing and explain it
When a couple of hours after sunrise Dr.
Blake opened his heavy eyes on New Years
morn, they rested at once on a framed por-
trait hanging against the opposite wall
Where had it come from. Who was it in
tended for?
For a closer view showed the Doctor that
the general contour of the features were his
own. So also was the blonde mustache. but
here to his own mind the resemblance
ceased The likeness between himself and
his nephew Paul had often been comment
ed on. This picture might have been Paul
with twenty years added to his age, or him
self with ten subtracted
With a sad smile Doctor Blake read the
inscription on a card pinned on the frame.
New Years' gift for my ("dear" erased)
guardian from his C"affectionate" erased)
ward
1t is plain that Doris forte is not por-
trait painting" be said, with a very audible
sigh. And then wondering how he should
Introduce the awkward explanation he was
meaning to make, the doctor went down to
breakfast
Replying rather curtly to Mrs Mack's af-
fectlonate New Years greeting, DR.. Blake
looked about the room
MSS Doris not down YETI" he said, with
affected carelessnesa
Mrs. Mack drew herself up primly
Sarah tells me, Doctor, that at sunrise
this morning she let Miss Doris out at the
front door fully dressed for travelling and
carrying a lerge hand sachel She gave no
explanation, but simply said she was going
away for good, and in due time would write